Nathaniel Allister
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Answered a Question in Fight Club
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) used to be referred to as Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), but was renamed when psychologists realized that DID was more accurately causing a fragment or... -
Answered a Question in Rights of Man
Thomas Paine saw America as a battleground in which to fight for his political philosophy—namely, that all men (yes, he was a chauvinist, like most writers of his time) were born with certain... -
Answered a Question in Judith Wright
"Remittance Man" tells the story of a once wealthy English aristocrat who casts away his fortune and finds his freedom as an emigrant rambler in the Australian outback. He becomes a rolling stone,... -
Answered a Question in The Blind Side
Family Systems Therapy (FST) and its sub-branch Structural Family Therapy (SFT) are both psychological approaches that focus on the family as the most important unit of social organization; both... -
Answered a Question in Sundiata
At the beginning of the story, before his conception, Sundiata's birth is prophesied to his father in classic epic fashion. On behalf of the buffalo woman, his lineage is half mortal, half divine,... -
Answered a Question in Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Geoffrey Chaucer, known popularly as the "Father of English Literature" was born in 1343 and died in 1400. His body of works—with none more famous than The Canterbury Tales—helped legitimize the... -
Answered a Question in Reconstruction
Culturally, the antebellum South looked very different than the Northern states. The Civil War was fought in part to force the South to give up their "old-fashioned" way of life and adopt the... -
Answered a Question in Life of Pi
I think it is possible to read Life of Pi as an "allegory of fear," so long as we take into consideration the multitude of things going on in Yann Martel's stunning novel. It is... -
Answered a Question in The Raven
The brilliance of Poe's immortal poem "The Raven" is this: an ordinary corvid flies into the narrator's house one night, perches over his door, and starts squawking (as birds are wont to do). Due... -
Answered a Question in Hatchet
Gary Paulsen's Hatchet is one of the great survival stories in literary history, and arguably the most famous featuring a young adult protagonist. The novel tells the story of 13-year-old Brian...